I look into Sony's E3 announcement about "Wonderbook" and what it means for hardcore gamers in the future.
These reveals and showcases may go down as one of the worst in E3 history.
The Vita was such a tragedy.
It was such a powerful handheld, but consumers just didn't latch onto it.
Great screen, great specs, but ridiculously overpriced memory cards quickly made it a non-starter for many. Even when I had one, I wouldn't buy games for the simple reason my 8/16 GB card was full, and it would have cost too much money to buy a new one, and I didn't want to remove the games which were on it.
Bought a 64GB card in Hong Kong last year orso, where it was actually affordable, but back in Holland a simple 32GB card would have cost me at least as much as I paid for the 64GB card in HK.
Way better than Switch. Ahead of it's time if you ask me and probably collectible one day.
The best lineup ever. Most were cancelled or not released and those that have are mediocre
I thought they were going to list PS3 because of the tags lol
Also, if you’re going to include Wonder Book, might as well throw Kinect in as well. Sesame Street, anyone? lol
Don't you dare talk smack about Skittles the tiger! Agreed though a lot of those demos were hilarious and painful to watch.
To be fair though, from a sales perspective Kinect was a huge success. It also had a fair number of games that weere a critical success.
True, but its far better known for its blunders, such as being the thing Rare was forced to make crappy games for, and one of the most embarrassingly bad Star Wars game in recebt memory. It also kindof fell the map pretty quickly, and played a huge role in botching Xbone’s launch.
Wii U, Wii Motion Sensor, Wonderbook, Kinect,Vita 3G AT&T, Wii Music, PS3 Price, US Saturn Launch "Saturnday" ,Game Boy Advance Micro. Are some of mine. I can't remember if Matrix Online was announced at E3 but SEGA was hyping it up as something SEGA fans were asking for and making it sound like a massive deal. Then never heard about it again.
The Sega Saturn has got to be the worse. "Hey the console is on the shelves right now... surprise!! Oh and it costs $400" and right after Sega's conference comes Sony and says that the PS1, a console that unlike the Saturn was designed to offer fully realized 3D worlds for the players to immerse themselves in, costs $300. That day marked the beggining of the end for Sega's hardware.
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Remember Wonderbook? If perchance its previous Book of Spells reminded you that you’re young at heart, there’s three more Wonderbooks on the way, including another Harry Potter: Book of Potions. Alongside the recipe book, there will also be a Wonderbook version of the BBC Documentary Walking with Dinosaurs and a kids detective story called Diggs Nightcrawler which was announced sometime last year and then disappeared mysteriously into Europe.
Until they turn Wonderbook into an augmented reality Rock Em Sock Em Robots, I don't care.
Seems so obvious to turn it into a virtual board game. Especially some bs like Mouse Trap that takes an hour and a half to set up if you haven't lost all the pieces.
Again, for the last time.
This will appeal to the masses of Potter fans out there. JK herself is involved, which alone speaks volumes. The crowd at E3 of course, wouldn't have much interest, nor would many others. But the younger kids, they will surely be the ones Sony are aiming at.
Good marketing will turn this into something profitable for Sony.
It would have been much better if they played like a 3 minute trailer for it. That still would have got the point across and would have left more time to talk about the Vita. A 20 minute stage demo and presentation was kind of a buzz kill.
You'd have my interest if you'd shown something more...I dunno, gamer based
It's not for gamers.